Program Manager

Title: Program Manager
Location: Rockville, MD
Target Start Date: ASAP
Type: Contract
Pay Rate: DOE

Job Responsibilities:

• • Strategy – Help frame program strategy, aligned to organizational goals and objectives, including measurement (OKRs, KPIs).
  • Governance – Maintain program governance structure and related mechanisms for steering, decision-making, and escalation.
  • Engagement – Coordinate program conversations at the right level and cadence. Publish notes and action items.
  • Sense-making – Own program narrative; synthesize details into high-impact artifacts tuned to audience and purpose.
  • Monitoring – Enable comprehensive program health and status monitoring, including a framework for aggregating key results from multiple projects across the enterprise.
  • Schedule management – Ensure roadmap / schedule integrity, including process for "business critical milestones” and key results reported at the CxO level. Monitor for and resolve items near or past due, date changes, stoplight changes, etc.
• Financials – Support capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance tracking, and related reporting including labor, cloud, vendor, software license, and other costs for initiatives. Coordinate setup of project codes.
  • Exceptions – Facilitate risk, issue, change, dependency, and critical decisions management.
  • Business cases – Drive end-to-end business case process – initiative funding pipeline ("FITS”), template utilization, incremental dates leading to each monthly business case review, stakeholder touchpoints, and feedback / approval forums.
  • Vendor management – Support third-party due diligence, selection, contract execution, and oversight.
  • Collaboration – Organize and maintain program collaboration and knowledge / work management infrastructure – example tools: Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, Miro.
• Administration – Provide administrative and logistical support such as roster and cost center management, meeting scheduling, team calendar management, conference planning, distribution list maintenance, etc.

Qualifications:

• Has bachelor's degree, preferably with a STEM or Finance element.
• Has 5+ years of experience and demonstrated proficiency in technology portfolio / program / project management.
• Has 3+ years of experience with agile (Scrum, SAFe®, LESS, Kanban, etc.).
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
• Demonstrates strong analysis, synthesis, and communication skills, and delivers high quality work product.
• Can navigate between big picture and detail, abstractions and specifics.
• Is adaptable, independent, and thrives in a hybrid environment without a central PMO.
• Is hands-on with collaboration infrastructure – expected to work directly in knowledge repositories (Confluence, SharePoint), work management systems (Jira, MS-Dynamics), BI and analytics tools (Excel, PowerBI), digital whiteboarding (Miro), communications tech (Zoom, Teams).
• Domain experience a plus: financial services, big data, data science, advanced analytics, AI / ML / LLM.

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